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Algorithm for Multiplying Numbers and Three Ananke

“How big should the number be for Harvey-van der-Hoven’s algorithm to give an advantage in the computation speed? “I have no idea,” Harvey honestly answers, but in his article, he cites as an example the multiplication giving the result 10214857091104455251940635045059417341952. It’s indeed a very large number: in the entire visible Universe, for example, contains only about 1080 elementary particles.”

We do not use such large numbers in our material world. We do not yet have a reason or a task that requires the last open multiplication algorithm.

 

Why Would We Need Such Big Numbers? 

The answer is in the book “The Inevitable” by Kevin Kelly. In Chapter 10, “Tracking,” the author writes that we will constantly monitor our lives and store this data for each person. Everyone will have the right to access data about themselves and others. Information databases will consist of a huge number of cells with very large address numbers.

If you want people to treat you as an individual, you need to be open and “transparent” so that they know enough about you for a personal relationship. If I want to be opaque to potential friends and organizations, then I have to accept the fact that the attitude towards me will be universal without taking into account my specific features.

He also suggests that bitcoin was created as an example of how to construct systems based on vigilance towards each other. (This is the “one side of the coin” of bitcoin. There is another side of it or task related to the book of Revelation in the Bible.)

As for anonymity, Kevin Kelly compares it with rare earth metal. Perhaps the author is referring to the radioactivity of chemical elements, the ability to break up into others. In this case, this property is inherent in radioactive isotopes of lanthanides (rare earth metals) and actinoids. Anonymity in vanishingly small doses “is good and even necessary for the system.”

The theme of “Openness/Anonymity” with a hint, which will be discussed later, sounds in the book “A Scanner Darkly” by Philip K. Dick (1977). It served as the basis for a 2006 film of the same name, directed by Richard Linklater, with Keanu Reeves as the protagonist.

 

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